No publishing house can produce works of any
quality without a competent and talented team of professionals behind every
title. Chatgris Press has been fortunate to be availed the expertise of a number
of skilled professionals.

Cile
Bailey,
born and raised in
New Orleans, began her art career selling photography and oil paintings in the French
Quarter during the 1960s. She won numerous awards and was published in a local
magazine. Invited to exhibit in the Louisiana State Capitol, she hung both documentary
black and white photography along with color portraits. Later, she participated
in an exhibit at the New Orleans International Trade Mart and more recently at the
Superdome in
New Orleans. Moving to the Northshore
of New Orleans, Ms. Bailey resides in the art community of
Covington,
LA where she has gallery representation. She is a member of the St. Tammany
Art Association and has won juried exhibitions. In Colorado, Ms. Bailey won a cash award in a
national juried show, and on her trip in the West,
she was reviewed by the renowned curator of the Los Angeles Museum of Art. After
returning home, she exhibited with other professional photographers at the New
Orleans Museum of Art. Locally, you can find Ms. Bailey’s art in the New Orleans French
Quarter at the Quarter Moon Gallery on Royal Street, and in
Covington
at the Arts and Frames Gallery on
Columbia Street. Note that Ms. Bailey also is the publisher's headshot photographer.

Peggy
A. Borelis
a writer and artist, and is a member of Bayou Writers Group of Lake Charles and Romance Writers Community Critique Group. She is a graduate of
Thomas College
in Waterville, ME, and has attended numerous writing classes through McNeese State
University
in Lake Charles, LA.
Her short story titled Lucky Seven, voted a winner by Purple Pen
Editing, home of The Whisper Stories, is to be published in a book of
anthologies. Ms. Borel currently paints and writes in St. Croix
in the Virgin Islands where she telecommutes to the mainland. Life’s
rough.

Holden Brown has been working since before he was legally able to. Having designed a
complicated and in-depth PowerPoint presentation for a major telecommunications
company at the age of 15, he replied with, "No problem" when thanked
profusely by the corporation. The company paid him in kind with an expensive
briefcase that he promptly offered to his mother, who told him, "No honey,
you hang on to it. You're going to need it one day." And it looks as if
that day is here. Mr. Brown has renown as an accomplished graphic designer,
musician, and award-winning independent filmmaker.

Julia Cates and I met at a chance encounter
more than a decade ago at a technical writing conference held at the luxurious
Anatoles Hotel in Dallas, TX. After pumping quarters into the fish food bubble
gum dispensers, we dropped the nuggets into open mouths bobbing in coy ponds.
Ms. Cates was a technical writer for the Brookings Institution at this time and
has since flourished as a successful artist and multimedia designer. Her shows and
exhibits range from Maryland to New Zealand, Mexico to France. Besides having
designed the colophon for Chatgris Press, her artwork adorns many walls of the
publishing house, and one of my most prized art possessions is her rendition of
the ISBN assigned to Chatgris Press's first title.

As
an officer with the International Association for Human Resources Information
Management, Norma Eiman was most generous with her time in reviewing the text for Gainfully
Employed. Ms. Eiman's review was thoughtful and inspiring, and we at Chatgris Press
can only hope that she is able to review other books in the future.

Brenda Floyd had athletic beginnings, first as a gymnast when her
father owned a gymnastics company in Natchez

, MS, then as one of the founding members of the soccer team for
the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.
Although she loves biking, running, and photography, she also has much interest in medicine
and cuisine—she possesses both a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and is a
registered nurse, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Culinary Science. Ms. Floyd also
gardens for flowers, citrus, and herbs, and also throws a wild party.

Peggy
Fuller has Southern Gothic roots, having grown up in a small town in rural
Virginia. She received her B.A. in Classics and Comparative Literature from the
University
of
North Carolina
at
Chapel Hill
and is an avid Tar Heel basketball fan. She attended Loyola University of New
Orleans School of Law where she was a member of the Law Review. She currently
practices public interest law in
Austin,
Texas
after having practiced law for a number of years in
New Orleans. She is a member of the State Bars of
Louisiana
and
Texas, as well as the
Commonwealth
of
Virginia. She also has an interest in the film industry, having studied film
production at the
University
of
New Orleans. Her interests include films and filmmaking, fiction, pottery, live
music, swimming, travel, dining, and hanging out. She lives with two precious
beagles, Festus and Clementine, in both
Austin
and
New Orleans.

Timothee Hammond, reviewer,
Foreword author

When I got back into the film business in 2005, it
was exactly 10 years to the month. And the first company to hire me was a
casting outfit titled Louisiana Casting Database. Tim Hammond and Liz
Coulon started this endeavor with the education gained from the University of
New Orleans film program. Mr. Hammond and Ms. Coulon were rewarded with a number of
high-profile feature-length films, and were perhaps the first extras casting
company to offer background actors the availability to post detailed film-style
resumes on their website. It only seemed appropriate that Mr. Hammond write the
foreword to Movie Extra 101.

Lamont Ingalls is a freeborn Southern man
who has wandered from the Everglades to
Fairbanks
with spousal companion, Amelia, and doggirl, Carson McCullers, sharing the many
miles and long vistas. He grew up in the wooded hills north of
Nashville
but lived for nearly 20 years in
New Orleans. He also homesteaded for several seasonsin the Cumberland Plateau and in
Washington,
DC. Mr. Ingalls has edited many non-fiction works for Chatgris Press, Wild Dog
Press, and others, and written engineering and software documents for clients
from
New Orleans
to Cape Canaveral to the District of Columbia. He
prefers reading the poetry of the ancient dharma hermits of
China
and
Japan, and the fictive West of Cormac McCarthy.He
has degrees from the University of Tennessee and Tulane University.

on and off for a number of years. This was made convenient by the fact that his mother is
from Barcelona, Sicily, and he still has a bevy of relatives in Florence
in the Tuscany
region and
Perugia
in
Umbria. Mr. Mitchell has a Bachelor of Arts in Italian and philosophy from
Tulane
University
in New Orleans
and, as first-generation Italian, possesses a mastery of formal training and
conversational technique in the Italian language. Other talents include musical
expertise in flute, piano, and guitar and he also has a diverse background in
sales. He has a tour guide license for the city of New Orleans and also teaches
Italian language classes.

Ronald Neeld has a diverse background in psychology, linguistics, and computer
science. He received a BA cum laude in
psychology from the University of New Orleans; an MA in linguistics from the
University of Illinois; and a PhD in linguistics from The Ohio State
University, where he also served on the faculty. His papers on linguistics have
been published in academic journals such as Language
and Glossa. Dr. Neeld held a
fellowship in computer science at
Tulane University
and was a faculty member in computer science at the University
of
New Orleans. He maintains an interest in psychology, and is an active member of the C.G.
Jung Society of New Orleans. He has worked in the field of Information
Technology in the corporate sector as a software developer and systems analyst,
specializing in database management systems, and also has worked as a technical
writer with such companies as Lockheed, BCP Engineering, and CapitalOne Bank.
Dr. Neeld also is the developer of the ManuTrax editorial management software, which is in
use at a variety of academic journals. His personal interests include science,
literature, and music, and he sings and plays guitar, with a special interest in
roots-oriented music such as folk, blues, and R&B.

Steve
O'Keefe is an
important early pioneer of the effort to develop the commercial potential of the
World Wide Web beginning with being one of the first people to publicize and
sell books on the Internet. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, approached him
for advice when he was formulating the concept behind what was to become the
world’s largest eCommerce site. In 1996 and again in 2002, John Wiley &
Sons published Mr. O’Keefe’s first book “Publicity on the Internet”
(second edition titled A Complete Guide to Internet Publicity), one of
the first professional guides to online marketing and the first specifically on
the subject of promoting books. In 2001, Mr. O’Keefe founded Patron Saint
Productions, a New Orleans-based online publicity firm. He also is one of the
founders of the International Association of Online Communicators and is a
faculty member at Tulane

University. In 2004, he began AuthorViews, the pioneering effort to put video of authors
talking about their books online. Several videos of Chatgris Press titles are
available for viewing online thanks to Mr. O’Keefe’s efforts.

Dean M.
Shapiro is a New Orleans-based freelance writer and
journalist with close to 40 years of experience in his field. He is also a
publicist, copyeditor, and author with four published books and more than 1,500
newspaper, magazine, and web articles to his credit. His career as a journalist
dates back to the late 1960s when, as a sophomore in college, he reported
award-winning stories from the anti-war protests in Washington, D.C. Mr. Shapiro
co-authored The Blood Covenant with Rena Chynoweth, one of the 13 wives
of polygamist cult leader Ervil LeBaron. Nicknamed the “Mormon
Manson,” LeBaron ordered the murders of 2
dozen people, including members of his own family. The book, released by Diamond
Books/Eakin Press, was the subject of a 1993 CBS made-for-TV movie, Prophet of
Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story starring Brian Dennehy, William Devane, and Tracey
Needham. Mr. Shapiro also co-authored the novelization of the critically
acclaimed feature film, Belizaire the Cajun, a work of fiction set on the bayous
of southern Louisiana in 1859. The novel, co-written with the film’s
director Glen Pitre, was published in hardcover and trade paperback by Pelican
Publishing Company of New Orleans in 1988. His third book, Blondin, is a
biography of the first man ever to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope in the
mid-19th century. It was published by Vanwell Publishing Ltd. of St. Catherines,
Ontario in 1990. His fourth book, The Eleventh Commandment, a suspense
novel, was published in 2008 by PublishAmerica of Baltimore. He also has been
contracted to write essays and biographies for several junior and senior high
school history and geography textbooks in recent years. Mr. Shapiro is the
author of 10 screenplays and he ghostwrote Mackie Shilstone’s
Body Plan for Kids, due to be published in the spring of 2009 by Basic
Media of Laguna Beach, CA. Mr. Shapiro teaches writing classes at the University
of New Orleans and writes regularly for several New Orleans-area publications
and websites.

Christy Soto completed her
Bachelor of Arts in English/Writing with more than 50 publications and six
produced theatrical plays to her credit. She also hosted an eclectic radio show
as disc jockey for 6 years. Ms. Soto followed her dreams of seeing the world
when she and her child, Athen, moved to New Orleans to attend graduate-level
film school. Her focus was screenwriting and playwriting. Her surreal drama,
Good Enough Girl, was produced in New Orleans hot spot, Le Chat Noir
theatre. In 3 years, she penned six feature-length screenplays, and one short
intended student production. With the intention to some day move to Los Angeles,
Ms. Soto sought film industry insight and learned pitching techniques from
several L.A.-based screenwriting workshops, which eventually landed her
television and movie work. In 2002, Ms. Soto self published her previously
published works into a volume of poetry and photography called, These are the
Rooms to my Mother’s House. The book made its debut at the New Orleans
Museum of Art. Shortly after that, she was the sole photographer for a start-up
anthropological webzine that featured the native Queen Charlotte Island Haida
Indians. Today, she has more than 1,000 travel, event, and unconventional works
of photography. She currently is working on a coffee table book, The Saddest
Party on Earth—a photo journal of the first Mardi Gras post-Hurricane
Katrina. Throughout her elementary, junior high, high school, and college years
she sang in many advanced choir groups. In New Orleans, a town known for its
music, Ms. Soto was a singer and songwriter in two bands, and at Voodoofest
2004, Ms. Soto went solo producing electronic music under the moniker “Vinylux.”
Prior to Katrina, Ms. Soto
was photographing, interviewing, and doing layout for A New Orleans Tour
Guide for Hip Parents. NOTGHP showcased a family-friendly New Orleans with
activities and historical facts. She now is at work on a book of
autobiographical travel humor, Happily Ever Aftermath. Comprising more
than 300 pages, this full color book dubbed the ill-conceived travels
of an unwed mother documents adventures from Germany
to Alaska to Thailand. In 2007 Ms. Soto
incorporated Vinylux Productions where she holds her ghostwriting business,
Ghostwriter’s Ink and her graphic design business, XY DESIGN. She also is a
founding member of the company Optilux
Design Firm.

Jack Stanovich is a lifelong resident of
New Orleans. With a Bachelor of Arts in Government, he is a formidable force to be reckoned
with regarding political discussions. Mr. Stanovich began his technical career
as a field surveyor, performing the layout of roads, pipelines, and foundations
for industrial structures. His technical writing/editing career began on the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve in 1978, and he currently develops technical
documentation on a consulting basis. Mr. Stanovich’s personal interests
include English literature, grammar, world history, government, and historical
and contemporary politics. I consider myself humbled to have played guitar with
him, although his classical expertise far outweighs mine. Also, he has a photographic memory.

Thom Bennett is a New Orleans-based photographer whose photographs of people, objects
of art, products, and the built environment are rooted in the classical
tradition of composition, lighting, expression, and design. In each photograph
he strives to tell a compelling story within the context of two dimensional
space. His work has appeared in New Orleans Magazine, BIZ Magazine, New Orleans
Homes & Lifestyles, Restaurateur, ByFaith, Homes & Land, Kingfish, City
Business, and Oliver Stone’s “JFK.” Thom’s fine art photographs have been
exhibited throughout the Southeast, including the Contemporary Arts Center in
New Orleans; WORKPLAY, Birmingham, AL; The University of Arkansas, Conway, AR;
Delta State University, Cleveland, MS; The New Orleans Museum of Art, New
Orleans, LA.; The Darkroom, New Orleans, LA; and The New Orleans Photo Alliance
Gallery.

Gary Michael Smithhas
more than 20 years of experience as an author and editor, having published 12
books. He also has contributed hundreds of articles for dozens of magazines and
trade journals, serving as columnist and contributor for such publications as Cat
Fancy, Urban Dog, The
Editorial Eye, and Louisiana Film and
Video Magazine. Mr. Smith began as a technical writer more than 2 decades
ago, working for such firms as Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, CACI, and Northrop
Grumman, and eventually serving as president for the local chapter
of the international organization Society for Technical Communication. While
working on his MFA in Television Video and Film Production, he worked stints as
camera operator and floor director for local television stations. But he never
lost sight of his writing, eventually transitioning into developing trade and
technical books through his brand Chatgris Press. Mr. Smith enjoys sharing his
knowledge, teaching as many as 11 night courses for the
University
of
New Orleans
and the St. Charles Parish
School District. Additionally, he has given many lectures and presentations at writing and
technical conferences and professional meetings, and has granted numerous radio,
television, and print interviews. He also has produced a number of monologues
for theatrical production. Having served as the former managing editor of the
American Heart Association scientific journal Hypertension, Mr. Smith discovered his love of
periodical management. He launched The Veranda literary journal of creative nonfiction in 1998 and also
served as editor-in-chief of the film magazine Shutter. Currently, he's the New Orleans Special Assignment Editor
for the Louisiana Film and Video Magazine. As author, he pioneered such books as The Peer-Reviewed Journal on scientific journal management, perhaps
the only book in existence on driving etiquette, another on professional
organization development and management, and a cutting-edge text on using
digital processes for short pressrun printing. Other texts include topics of
working in the film industry, the history of coffee and coffeehouses, advanced
grammar and writing, writing for publication in magazines and trade
journals, and his latest book on photography. Mr. Smith also enjoys working in the film industry, having helped to
cast several feature films and appearing in 19 made-for-TV movies, feature
films, a cooking show, and the pilot of a reality series. He currently serves on
a number of boards of directors and committees, and has won awards for writing
and organizational development.